From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 20:09:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA22783 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:09:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from bbs.dcoisp.net (bbs.dcoisp.net [208.128.192.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA22776 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net) From: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net Received: from MHS by bbs.dcoisp.net with MHS id BFAKDGCA ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:11:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:10:54 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: login as root remotely not possible? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello again everyone. I have just installed freebsd 2.2.2-release. All seemed to install properly. I coppied the login.conf from /usr/src/etc to the /etc directory. I was able to login as root from main console and my remote terminal on the serial port, ttyd0 However, when I try either telnetting into my freebsd box, or rlogging into my freebsd box from a remote network. The passwd for root doesn't work. That is to say, when I try to login to my freebsd box either rlogin or telnet, I am unable to login as root. However, I was able to create another user account and place that account into the proper groups to su to root, so all is working well. I was just wondering if this was a natural thing, not being able to login as root when either telnetting or rlogging into my machine? Thanks. Jeremy